Matt Bracewell

Been asked by the good people at Packt to review their new TYPO3 book.
It’s been written by Dan Osipov who’s on the TYPO3 DAM team.
I’ve bought their previous titles and been impressed so I’m looking forward  to getting my hands on it.
You just can’t beat a book on your desk at times and Packt share some revenue with the projects concerned – win win!

If you want to save trees there’s an eBook version and a sample chapter is also available.

Complete information for Packt TYPO3 4.3 Multimedia Cookbook.

Playing with the new Google App Engine Launcher this evening I spotted this warning every time the dev_appserver server kicked up:

WARNING  2009-08-10 22:37:23,407 dev_appserver.py:3358
Could not initialize images API; you are likely missing the Python "PIL" module.
ImportError: No module named _imaging

A comment from praseodym on the GAE Cookbook recipe Install PIL in Mac OS X provided this one liner:

sudo easy_install --find-links http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Imaging

I ran the command in Terminal and was impressed with a speedy auto install and, ignoring a few errors in the verbose output, restarted the dev_appserver. Same warning!

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As a follow on from Django on OS X – getting started here’s what happened after I took Stuart’s advice, installed Xcode and atempted to add mod_wsgi to apache.  Before I start let’s just clarify that I’m using MAMP Pro 1.7 on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.  This provides me with Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3 DAV/2. 

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